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Adana
City (pop., 1995: 1,066,000), S central Turkey, on the Seyhan River. An agricultural and industrial center and one of Turkey's largest cities, it probably overlies a Hittite settlement that dates from c.1400 BC. Conquered by Alexander the Great in 335-334 BC, it was later a Roman military station. It came under the rule of the Abbasid Arabs at the end of the 7th cent. AD and changed hands intermittently until the establishment of the Turkmen dynasty in 1378. Adana's prosperity has long derived from the fertile valleys behind it and its position as a bridgehead on the Anatolian-Arabian trade routes.
fauna
All the species of animals found in a particular region, period, or special environment. Five faunal realms, based on terrestrial animal species, are generally recognized: Holarctic, incl. Nearactic (N. America) and Paleartic (Eurasia and N Africa); Paleotropical (tropical Africa and S.E. Asia); Neotropical (Central and S. America); Australian; and Antarctic.
kagura
In Shinto, a traditional style of music and dancing used in religious ceremonies. Kagura dances dedicated to native deities are a reenactment of the propitiatory dance that lured the sun goddess Amaterasu from her cave in ancient myth. Largely unchanged for the past 1,500 years, the dances are performed to the accompaniment of chants, drums, brass gongs, and flutes. The music is of two types: one to praise the spirits or seek their aid, the other to entertain the gods.
Kaunas
City (pop., 1996 est.: 411,000), S Lithuania. Founded as a fortress in 1030, it passed to Russia in 1795 after the third Partition of Poland. It was the capital of independent Lithuania 1920-40, then it was annexed by the U.S.S.R. Many historic buildings survive in the Old Town. In addition to being an important industrial center, it is an educational and cultural center, with polytechnic, medical, and agricultural institutes.
Kaunda
Politician who led Zambia to independence and served as its president for 30 years (1961-91). He came to prominence in 1959-60 in the movement to stop Britain from establishing a federation of N. and S. Rhodesia and Nyasaland. Elected the first president of independent Zambia, he helped avert a civil war in the late 1960s, but ended up imposing single-party rule. From the 1970s he led other S African nations in confronting the white-minority governments of Rhodesia and S. Africa. He increased Zambia's dependence on copper exports and on foreign aid, allowing agriculture, education, and social services to languish and poverty and unemployment to increase. Several attempted coups in the early 1980s were crushed; in 1990 he was forced to legalize opposition parties, and in 1991 he was voted out of office.
Madura
Island (pop., 1980: 2,690,000), Jawa Timur province, Indonesia, off NE Java. Its capital is Pamekasan. With an area of 2,042 sq mi (5,290 sq km), it has a ...
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